Sunday, June 10, 2012

Cannabis 451

Tincture boil in the shadows of prohibition. RI 20011

Ray Bradbury's great novelFahrenheit 451 describes a hyper-controlling,
fear-driven militaristic society hooked on pills and living vicariously through
the lives of imaginary characters on big screens.Substitute cannabis for books and it’s 2014 America in the waning years of prohibition.

Like Bradbury's book lovers, cannabis patients living under prohibition are fundamentally law-abiding citizens driven to secrecy by oppressive laws and social contracts that have neighbors watching neighbors for signs of moral decay.

The Tyranny
of Prohibition

Washington has long operated on the assumption that what is good for big
business will ultimately be good for the nation; jobs, revenue, growth,
captive markets, and lots of consumer spending.To make that work for big healthcare, they took away our right to grow our own medicine and created a farcical schedule of forbidden plants; don't even look.

At the heart of this global scheme to control for
profit what we use for medicine is a deep-rooted propaganda campaign that has
installed the societal impression that cannabis is a fringe issue; just pot, a smoked substance for slackers that crafty stoners are
calling medicine in an effort to free up their favorite party drug.

To keep the truth at bay and everyone in line, many doctors
are forbidden by their insurance carriers to discuss cannabis options with
their patients, and some willingly disavow their Hippocratic oath by refusing
to treat patients who confess to using the banned flower for medicine. For proper New England Yankees, using weed is a fine practice for prep school and college, but if
you’re a fifty-something professional with teens in the house, you’re probably tokin’ in the closet.

Cannabis the
Exit Drug

The first generation of school children to go through
the DARE program are now in college.Given
the popularity of the book Marijuana is
Safer, and the proliferation of Students
for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) chapters around the world, it’s clear that younger generations are finally deciding to think for themselves—and fight for the right to add
cannabis to the party mix.

Let’s be honest; consuming alcoholic beverages can be
a fun way to celebrate, but let’s also cut the crap.Alcohol kills; cannabis doesn’t.Cannabis isn’t physically addictive; alcohol
can be.Cannabis-infused gatherings are
famously peaceful, while alcohol-fueled celebrations are notoriously unstable.In 2009 researchers at the School of Social Welfare,
University of California, Berkeley found that “medical cannabis patients have
been engaging in substitution by using cannabis as an alternative to alcohol,
prescription and illicit drugs [www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/6/1/35]

In late 2011, Maia Szalavitz reported for Time
Magazine that “states that legalize medical marijuana see fewer fatal car
accidents, in part because people may be substituting marijuana smoking for
drinking alcohol.” [http://healthland.time.com/2011/12/02/why-medical-marijuana-laws-reduce-traffic-deaths]

These findings are hopeful news for heavy drinkers and
the people trying to help them—but many will first need to shake the notion
that the only cure for alcoholism is sobriety.Here’s an example from a prohibition state on the east coast:

An elderly
Purple Heart veteran is dying of cancer; cared for by his daughter and her
husband—in a cramped two-bedroom apartment.For too long her old man has been dealing with his pain with a volatile
mix of prescribed meds and Stoli shots, which he loudly raves for all day long.

The
weary couple can usually hold him to four or five, but every night he’s bitter,
loud, and abusive.Three months before
her father dies, his daughter begins coloring his Stoli shots with a solid dose
of alcohol-based cannabis tincture she found at a local freedom festival.

The
change is miraculous.The old guy is
suddenly talkative, relaxed, and down to three shots a day.In those final weeks he took a renewed
interest in watching his favorite old war movie s.He got some rest, and died in his sleep.

Truth, Healing
and Enterprise

With no danger of a lethal overdose or physical
addiction, cannabis is well-suited to personal exploration, including strains,
edibles, raw juice, extracts, salves; whatever works.Seeds, clones, home remedies and care
strategies are being shared, sold and bartered through a cautious and
well-hidden community of growers, patients, healers, and practitioners.Weekend freedom festivals are the market
square of the movement; a place to connect, toke, brag, haggle and sample
kitchen creations made from flowers lovingly grown in private.

The cannabis frontier, which Washington is
simultaneously attempting to deny and crush, are nevertheless delivering jobs
and opportunity to recession-weary carpenters, electricians, plumbers, practitioners,
care growers, vendors, inventors, publishers, promoters, educators, online
enterprisers…and a few are already making a very good living in the cannabis trades.

Well aware that legalization is inevitable now that the truth can be found online, industrialists who have long benefited from prohibition are no doubt horrified to see how healthcare customer counts fall wherever cannabis freedom is restored. In Colorado, forty percent of the weed produced in the state is grown in private; not packaged, not regulated, not taxed. Ancient, non-toxic medicine freely produced at home and in private. What a concept.

3 comments:

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